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- EIN 81-1344772
- info@compassscicomm.org
- (503) 286-2056
- 10121 SE Sunnyside Rd, Suite 300 Clackamas OR 97015 USA
- www.compassscicomm.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Adult Education, Arts & Culture, Education, Environment, Marine Science & Oceanography, Media & Communications, Natural Resources Conservation & Protection, Technology
Mission: COMPASS champions, connects, and supports diverse science leaders to improve the well-being of people and nature. We invest in science leaders that reflect the diversity of society as a whole, creating inclusive, safe, and empowering spaces for learning and transformation. With strategic skills, connections, and support, scientists can advance just, equitable solutions to climate change and biodiversity loss. Since 1999, COMPASS has supported over 10,000 scientists to communicate about their work and engage beyond lab and field. We’ve connected them with journalists, policymakers, and community leaders across the United States, when and where it matters, ensuring science has a seat at the table.
Programs: Visibility, outreach, and trainings: grounded in the latest research on science communication, our in-depth, highly interactive, and customized trainings empower scientists to find the relevance of their science for the audiences they most want to reach -- journalists, policymakers, stakeholders, leaders within their institution, and other scientists. We help scientists set, refine, and ultimately achieve their goals for effectively engaging with society. As pioneers in the practice of science communication, we bring our experience, insight and social capital to supporting more scientists to engage and to do so effectively.
oceans: our oceans portfolio seeks to strengthen the public discourse around ocean conservation to ensure that relevant policies and practices reflect the latest scientific knowledge and insights. Drawing on over fifteen years of working closely with leading ocean scientists (natural and social), we tap into our extensive networks to support scientists to contribute to framing and advancing the dialogue around more robust solutions to some of the greatest challenges facing the ocean. By facilitating interdisciplinary workshops and trainings, framing scientific conferences, and connecting scientists with policymakers, journalists, and others who influence the discourse, we focus on where science and scientists can be most transformative.
land: our work in terrestrial systems seeks to empower scientists to contribute to a more robust discourse about the conservation of western lands. We focus on bridging the disconnects between scientific understanding and perceptions, policy, and practices around issues such as wildfire, endangered species, and climate adaptation. We support current and emerging leaders across the west to inject cutting-edge science into society's conversations about how to manage increasingly flammable and dry landscapes and adapt to a rapidly changing world.